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> But the hard truth is that now is the right time to focus on this, and the beginning of the pandemic was simply not. That’s not what happened. We didn’t shel
by jorgesborges 4y ago
> But the hard truth is that now is the right time to focus on this, and the beginning of the pandemic was simply not.
That’s not what happened. We didn’t shelve the discussion to focus on other priorities, we created a propaganda campaign to prohibit the discussion from taking placing and actively censored and stigmatized well-meaning individuals who explored it.
There’s so much condescension in the post-rationalization of these decisions. We couldn’t tell people that masks might not work, or that the virus may have come from a lab. Why? All it did was destroy the credibility of our institutions.
- taolegal 4y ago> All it did was destroy the credibility of our institutions. They're stuck in a death spiral too, cause admitting fault now would unravel years of digging themselves into a hole, insisting that they make no errors and if they do it's cause "the science changed."